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2011 Golden Globe Award Winners

For 68 years, the Hollywood Foreign Press Associationhas been celebrating their favorites in film and television with the Golden Globe Awards.

Once again, the multifaceted and generally hilarious Ricky Gervais will be serving as host of tonight’s gala. While those in attendance will be filled with anticipation about whether or not they will take home the award in their chosen category, viewers at home will be anxiously waiting to see how far Gervais will push the comedic envelope with his monologue and numerous ad-libs throughout the night.

With 25 separate categories having to fit within tonight’s given time slot, something tells me that Gervais will be moving things along at a swift pace – all while sipping from his iconic glass a beer that always remains not-so-hidden beneath his podium.

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Review

Gervais was scathingly blunt as usual - though over the course of the show his increasingly nervous demeanor suggested that he was either beginning to worry about all the bridges he was possibly burning, or he had received enough threats backstage to tone it down a bit. After all, introducing Bruce Willis by calling him "Ashton Kutcher's dad" and cracking 'Famous gay Scientologist' jokes are a risky endeavor for any man in Hollywood hoping to keep breathing, am I right?

Of course Gervais wasn't the only one to get on the podium and say something that had viewers arching their brows. We may forever be analyzing whether or not Robert De Niro's Cecil B. Demille Award acceptance speech was a bitter rant or a De Niro-brand version of light comedy. A pregnant Natalie Portman used her Best Actress acceptance speech to teach us all about the circle of life and crack jokes about just how evident it was that her (baby daddy?) would in fact sleep with her - even though his small Black Swan cameo involved him delivering a line to the contrary. Sure, why not. Oh, and Tilda Swinton gave, the, most, severe, enunciation, of, a, nominee, list, EVER.

On the other hand, Katey Sagal and Seven Buscemi won Best Actor/Actress awards for Sons of Anarchy and Boardwalk Empire, respectively, giving this year's Globes those nice "long overdue" moments of validation you hope to see now and again. Trent Reznor also won a Golden Globe, meaning that millions of boys and girls who wore black makeup and shin-high black boots during the mid-90s are also now feeling validated.

Just some of the high/low lights.

Levity award of the night went to Michael Douglas, who took the podium for the first time since his bout with cancer and wittily claimed that there must be easier ways to inspire the standing ovation that greeted him.

There were some mystery moments in the ceremony that are sure to keep the Interwebs spinning for the next day or so: The bleeped-out moments of what Christian Bale said to Robert De Niro during his Fighter Supporting Actor Award speech; what Paul Giamatti likes to drink that's so bad it's namehad to be bleeped-out; or the particular Death Eater hex Helena Bonham Carter was putting on actress Melissa Leo during the latter's acceptance speech for her Supporting Actress award for The Fighter. Finally, like De Niro, we may always be left wondering if Al Pacino suddenly awoke from a deep sleep only to find himself onstage being handed an award for You Don't Know Jack. Because it certainly seemed that way.

Oh, and The Social Network won Best Picture, of course. Is the top Oscar next? (Sorry Inception fans, your beloved Nolan film walked away empty-handed in the big awards categories. C'est la vie.)

“There’s A Place For Us” – The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, Music & Lyrics By: Hillary Lindsey, Carrie Underwood and David Hodges

Best Television Series – Drama

Boardwalk Empire (HBO)

Dexter (SHOWTIME)

The Good Wife (CBS)

Mad Men (AMC)

The Walking Dead (AMC)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama

Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire (HBO)

Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad

Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)

Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)

Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Chris Colfer – Glee (FOX)

Scott Caan – Hawaii Five-O

Chris Noth – The Good Wife (CBS)

Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family (ABC)

David Strathairn – Temple Grandin (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Christian Bale – The Fighter

Michael Douglas – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Andrew Garfield – The Social Network

Jeremy Renner – The Town

Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television

Carlos (Sundance C)

The Pacific (HBO)

Pillars Of The Earth (STARZ)

Temple Grandin (HBO)

You Don’t Know Jack (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama

Katey Sagal – Sons Of Anarchy

Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife (CBS)

Elisabeth Moss – Mad Men (AMC)

Piper Perabo – Covert Affairs

Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical

Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right

Anne Hathaway – Love & Other Drugs

Angelina Jolie – The Tourist

Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right

Emma Stone – Easy A

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Let us know what you thought of the 2011 Golden Globes and if any film, actor, actress, director, etc... got snubbed this year in your opinion. Was Ricky Gervais too mean as a host, or did you find his brand of ego-deflating humor spot on?